In 2378, he contacted the then-Captain Janeway while her ship, USS Voyager, was stuck in the Delta Quadrant. Among the topics they caught up on with each other were the Voth. He commented on how he knew she'd go far, which Janeway replied "A little farther then I expected, professor". He then went on to talk about the real reason he contacted her, that Voyager was in the vicinity of where Starfleet Command believed the 21st centuryprobeFriendship 1 was. He assigned her Voyager's first mission in seven years, to retrieve the probe. (VOY: "Friendship One")